Christie's is auctioning the Durand-Ruel Collection: 62 masterpieces are up for sale, including a Monet valued at 15 million euros Market

Christie's is auctioning the Durand-Ruel Collection: 62 masterpieces are up for sale, including a Monet valued at 15 million euros

31/07/2026, 18:31:03
The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation Joins the National Museum System: Official Recognition as a Museum Museums

The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation Joins the National Museum System: Official Recognition as a Museum

31/07/2026, 17:07:56
Project to Enhance the Carsulae Archaeological Site Gets Underway Archaeology

Project to Enhance the Carsulae Archaeological Site Gets Underway

31/07/2026, 13:50:05
Capodimonte: The Carracci paintings—copies of Correggio’s lost frescoes—have been restored and brought together for the first time Museums

Capodimonte: The Carracci paintings—copies of Correggio’s lost frescoes—have been restored and brought together for the first time

31/07/2026, 13:16:11
The Golden Hall at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum will be restored to its original appearance Museums

The Golden Hall at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum will be restored to its original appearance

31/07/2026, 12:28:12
An exhibition in Biella explores Divisionism as the origin of the Italian avant-garde Exhibitions

An exhibition in Biella explores Divisionism as the origin of the Italian avant-garde

31/07/2026, 11:20:27
Roman Inscription Missing Since 1943 and Rediscovered in the U.S. Returned to the Civitavecchia Museum Archaeology

Roman Inscription Missing Since 1943 and Rediscovered in the U.S. Returned to the Civitavecchia Museum

31/07/2026, 11:08:20
The Way of St. Francis is born—a major route that brings together the main pilgrimage routes dedicated to the saint of Assisi News

The Way of St. Francis is born—a major route that brings together the main pilgrimage routes dedicated to the saint of Assisi

30/07/2026, 16:57:32
Frank Gehry's Benson House, one of his rare residential designs, is up for sale News

Frank Gehry's Benson House, one of his rare residential designs, is up for sale

30/07/2026, 16:33:58


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Managers in museums: an idiocy, according to Settis. And how can you blame him?

Managers in museums: an idiocy, according to Settis. And how can you blame him?

Federico Giannini 10/05/2014

Works and artists
Why do we say a landscape "looks like a painting"? A brief history of the gaze

Why do we say a landscape "looks like a painting"? A brief history of the gaze

Federico Giannini 14/01/2026

Castelnuovo Magra restarts with Gianni Berengo Gardin. In the tower his black and white reportages Exhibition reviews

Castelnuovo Magra restarts with Gianni Berengo Gardin. In the tower his black and white reportages

09/08/2022, 01:01:53
Bologna compares Guido Reni's two Atalantes. What the exhibition at the Pinacoteca Nazionale looks like. Exhibition reviews

Bologna compares Guido Reni's two Atalantes. What the exhibition at the Pinacoteca Nazionale looks like.

09/02/2025, 17:55:29
If contemporary art is to be, let it be powerful and jaw-dropping. On Damien Hirst in St. Moritz. Exhibition reviews

If contemporary art is to be, let it be powerful and jaw-dropping. On Damien Hirst in St. Moritz.

27/03/2021, 14:02:10
The skin of the chameleon and Bertozzi & Casoni's memento mori Exhibition reviews

The skin of the chameleon and Bertozzi & Casoni's memento mori

14/10/2024, 18:30:26
The achievements of a man who lived in the future. The exhibition on Lucio Fontana at the Magnani Rocca Exhibition reviews

The achievements of a man who lived in the future. The exhibition on Lucio Fontana at the Magnani Rocca

06/04/2022, 17:56:14
In the Spirit of Correggio. The annual exhibition of the Free Engravers Association. Exhibition reviews

In the Spirit of Correggio. The annual exhibition of the Free Engravers Association.

21/10/2022, 17:20:12

Works and artists
Al Hirschfeld, celebrity caricaturist

Al Hirschfeld, celebrity caricaturist

Gabriele Giannini 25/03/2016

Beyond the Visible: The Quest for Transcendence in Contemporary Art Opinions

Beyond the Visible: The Quest for Transcendence in Contemporary Art

30/07/2026, 17:01:03
Did Nolan politicize *The Odyssey*? Yes and no—every era rewrites its own Ulysses Opinions

Did Nolan politicize *The Odyssey*? Yes and no—every era rewrites its own Ulysses

24/07/2026, 16:55:09
Why Contemporary Art Is Producing Increasingly Mediocre Works Opinions

Why Contemporary Art Is Producing Increasingly Mediocre Works

24/07/2026, 16:01:39

Giovanna Garzoni’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Fruit, Porcelain, and Miniatures Works and artists

Giovanna Garzoni’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Fruit, Porcelain, and Miniatures

31/07/2026, 17:52:05
Pontormo's Diary: What Did an Artist Eat in the 16th Century? Works and artists

Pontormo's Diary: What Did an Artist Eat in the 16th Century?

25/07/2026, 12:50:11
Circe’s Cup and the Fate of Odysseus: Two Masterpieces, Two Interpretations of the Myth Works and artists

Circe’s Cup and the Fate of Odysseus: Two Masterpieces, Two Interpretations of the Myth

22/07/2026, 21:21:37